Re:Twenty Questions with Steven Pinker
by owlmirror on Wednesday February 21, 2018 @02:10AM
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Where do you have this interpretation from that "societies are established through violence and myth" and how is that idea contrary to Marxist political philosophy?
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Re:Twenty Questions with Steven Pinker
by woodandsteel on Wednesday February 21, 2018 @06:58PM
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I said this because I not a Marxist, but I have studied it. According to Marx, human beings are social creatures who have always lived in societies, and governmental violence against citizens came later when humans moved from foraging to agriculture. Liberalism has a similar view, and science has confirmed that this view is correct and the Nietzschean one is mistaken.